Glasscraft Club

The club entitles members to the benefits listed below for 12 months
from the
date of purchase. The membership can be purchased from Glasscraft for
$100 per
year, without the option to buy a partial year.

25% Club discount on color from applicable companies.

15% Club discount on Kimble tubing and rod.

20% Club discount on Simax and Chinese clear and colored tubing and rod.

Freddy Faerron and James Yaun are taking over Glasscraft Golden

Posted on Thu, Aug 06 2015 3:23 pm
by Jennifer Langill

While our Golden, Colorado
studio is always a great place to be, next week will be really exciting! Freddy
Faerron and James Yaun will be taking over the joint, spreading knowledge ad
showing off their extensive fuming and vortex capabilities.

The 5 day adventure starts
with a 2 day class in Advance Fume Theory and Application on August 12th and 13th.
Faerron and Yaun will be sharing fuming studies and techniques 35 years in the
making. Making the rainbow fume color
wheel and the applied theories in doing single colors from the rainbow fume
palette will be shared. The reflective and transmitting qualities of fume will
be explored. Hollow and solid form techniques will be applied from many angles.
They will share theories and application in implosion, traditional cane making,
marble making, hollow vessel forming, fume layering, surface patterning and
multiple combinations of these techniques.

On Friday, August 14th
Glasscraft, Golden will be hosting a community day. Artists are welcome to come
and participate in an open collaboration. Faerron and Yaun will be making a 4
plus inch Orb with segments made by the participants. This is a free event and
bound to be a lot of fun!

On Saturday and Sunday,
August 15th and 16th, Yaun and Faerron will be teaching
another 2 day class, this time on Advanced Vortex Theory and Application.This class will explore vortex theory, optic
properties of glass, inclusions and how to vortex flat artwork.

For more information on the classes, click here. Hurry, there are only a
few spots left!

About the Instructors

Freddy Faerron has
been a professional craft artisan for over 25years. His career has encompassed
various media including leather, metal, plate glass and lampworked glass.
He has traveled throughout the U.S. selling his art in open-air markets, craft
fairs and retail stores. His jewelry was showcased on the national TV series
“Dharma and Greg,” and worn in concert by Emily Saliers of the Indigo Girls. Working
as a stained glass assembler in the mid 1990's, he fell in love with glass in
general. He learned to cut, foil and assemble custom stained glass panels from
artists Bill and Irene Powell of Miami, Florida, and has continued his growth
in glass art ever since. He began working with borosilicate glass as a
lampworker in the late 90s. For the past 17 years he has developed jewelry,
marbles and large-scale borosilicate drinking vessels, as well as solid and
hollow sculptures.

James Yaun started
lampworking, making spoons back in 1998. In 1999, while attending a Widespread
Panic show in hopes of selling his wares, he met a guy from Southern California
who was selling fumed spoons. Yaun was blown away. The seller explained the
technique very quickly and rudimentarily, stating that you basically put metal
in the flame and let the fume stick to the glass. So, Yaun went out and bought
a 24 karat gold coin and a troy ounce of silver and got started. He really didn’t
know what he was doing He put large
chunks of metal in the flame that were too heavy and soon a piece of very hot
metal was tumbling around his bench. It took about three weeks before he
started getting the hang of things. In the early 2000’s he quit glass for about
a year. Yaun started back up with beads and pendants. Then, he came across Kenan
Tiemeyer’s fumed pendants. Yaun realized that he could use the fuming
techniques he had been honing years earlier and make art. In fact from
2004-2009 Yaun stuck to marbles and pendants exclusively. Yaun has decided that
the time has come to spill all of his proprietary secrets. His vortex and
fuming secrets will be laid on the table with these two classes and he looks
forward to sharing them all with you.